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A46295	The wonderful, and most deplorable history of the latter times of the Jews with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. By Josephus Ben Gorion whereunto is added a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtrait of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful, and presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times and crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.; Josippon. English. Abridgments.	Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1671 (1671)	Wing J1086A; ESTC R216340	213,458	417

overcome you and to have gotten the dominion over you But neither ye nor your Country did ever delight us greatly for our manners differ far from yours Behold the King of Madai when he had kept us for a moneth we harmed him not we are not wont to hur●… men as ye are that cannot be content with your own state but must desire other mens inheri●…ance Now therefore go and return to your own Country and so will we to ours without doing you any more hurt wherefore ye need not be afraid of us So the Alanites went home to their own Countries having slain of Mithridates people three hundred thousand men and never a one of their own was killed Titus hearing of this was desirous to go unto them to let them understand his valiantnesse but he could not compasse it b●…cause all his best men were spent in the Wa●… at Jerusalem Wherefore he determined to retu●…n to Rome after he had taken Jerusalem where he abode as yet besides the Antochia There he had intelligence that divers of the Jews were gathered together with whom was Eleazar the son of Anani the Priest who during the siege fled unto a certain Hold called Mezira whereupon many of the Jews resorted to him Titus hearing this that many had joyned themselves to Eleazar feared lest after his departure Eleazar●… might from thence make an inrode and take Jerusalem and destroy the Romans which should be no smal damage to the Roman Empire Wherefore he made out against him and sent thither one Silcham a Noble man of Rome with a great host to besiege Mezira but he could not get it Wherefore he sent unto Titus for an Iron Ram to batter the Walls withal which after he had received it he beat down the walls of Mezira therewith The Jews seeing that raised a great Countermure within of Wood and Timber which the Romans set on fire and burnt After that they assaulted the Town from morning till night at what time the Romans le●… off supposing they were not able to prevail against Eleazars defence in the dark Eleazar in the mean season called an assembly of all the chief men of the Jews that were with him and said unto them in this wise Come hither ye seed of Abraham and Kingly Priesthood which have until this day ever prevailed against the enemies of God Let us hear your advice what is best to be done against this multitude that is come upon us at unawares Ye see that at this time chiefly it becometh us to follow the courage and valiantnesse of our forefathers wherewith they were in time past endued Consider moreover that every thing hath his end and there are some times in War when as men are wont to follow the pursuit sometimes to flee from the same whom they pursued and to humble themselve before them And it is no shame to be humbled and disgraced when as all things have their determin●…te end Albeit whoso is of an haughty courage he must so establish his heart that he quail not with fear then shall he be deemed a valiant man If ye therefore be of that courage that ye fear not death then will I call ●…ou valiant men and worthy Consider the fortitude of Abraham our father and the fact that he did for having but one only son whom Sarah bare unto him in her age he never staggered nor stayed at it to offer him up to the Lord God for a burnt-offering for he thought not that he should kill him but perswaded himself most certainly that he should promote him to the life and light of the Lord forasmuch as for ●…he love of God and at his commandment he should have killed him Weigh the thing that Josiah the just King did who setting at nought this wretched life and aspiring to everlasting felicity would not avoid the jeopardy of his life when as he might have done it For although Pharaoh Necho said He came not against him but against the King of the Chaldees yet would not Josiah hear him but rather proceeding against Pharaoh in arms was slain in the battel and went unto that great Light in the Garden of Paradise which is the lot and inheritance of the just We know that in this world no man receives the reward of his righteousnesse but it is laid up for him in the other world where he shall reap the fruit of his righteousnesse that he hath sown in this world Neither doth long life in this world profit a man to the attaining of everlasting blisse except he work righteousnesse and lead his soul forth of darknesse into light like as contrariwise shortnesse of life hindreth no man from everlasting happinesse if so be it his soul have no defect in those things that pertain to the world to come For Abel which was slain of his brother lived no long life yet when he had ended it he obtained everlasting rest but Cain that lived long in the world was a wanderer and a runagate in this earth and after this life went to perpetual misery Now therefore my Brethren if we also shall live any longer our life shall be a miserable life and our dayes dayes of vanity and travel yea our soul as long as it shall remain in this body it shall be tossed with great tribulation but if it once go forth then shall it rejoyce and never be afraid And all the dayes that it is in the body it never leaveth weeping and mourning for it is the Spirit of life which is hedged within the body by ●…inewes bones none otherwise then if it were bound with chains The spirit is also that which quickneth the flesh that is taken of the dust of the earth for flesh cannot quicken the spirit Besides this the spirit is that which observeth and marketh the flesh and searcheth the works thereof so long as it is in the body yea the flesh cannot see the spirit but the spir●…t seeth the flesh alwayes neither is there any member of the body hid from it The eyes also of the body cannot perceive what time the spirit resorteth to the flesh and departeth from the same for the spirit of man which is his soul is from heaven but the flesh is taken from the earth Wherefore the soul may ●…main without the body but not likewise 〈◊〉 body without the soul and when the spiri●… comes to the flesh it visiteth it as a neighbour is wont to go and see his neighbour and quickeneth it and when again it departeth from it the flesh dyeth and if the soul will follow the desires of the flesh then this is the death of the soul but if it give no ear unto the flesh then shall the soul come to the light of life and the flesh shall die Wherefore the soul is glad when it departeth out of the body like as one that hath been bound is well contented when he 〈◊〉 dismissed out of prison For all the while that the soul is kept closed

after this came many souldiers and great bands of men out of all Nations that were subject to the Empire of the Romans to aid Titus to whom Titus declared what had hapned him in that siege the stoutness of the Jews and how they had annoyed many waies the Roman army adding moreover and asking them Did you ever see four men withstand ten thousand and five hundred so that they being all together could neither overthrow them nor take them prisoners but the four slew them like as it had been tops of Coucumbers smitten off with most sharp swords When they heard this they wondred all very much Then Titus spake unto his host and to them which were newly repaired unto him to shew their advice and best counsel what was to be done lest we should be ashamed saith he before all them that shall hereafter hear of our Wars The gravest and most ancient of the Nations that were newly come to his aid answered If it please your Majesty let the Romans breath a while and take their rest which are now wearied with the sundry battels of the Jews and we who are not so broken with labour but fresh and lusty shall try what the Jews can do we cannot think that they are able to withstand so great a multitude But the Princes of the Romans desired Titus that he should not permit them this lest he should increase their own sorrows if peradventure they should be discomfited say they of the Jews and the matter redound unto their own shame For if we which are acquainted with them and know their manner of fight cannot sustain their violence How shall they do it that never had proof of the strength and force of the Jews They shall be to them like Hyssop which groweth upon the walls in comparison of the Cedar-trees of Libanus The other said nay they should do well enough with them And they urged Titus so instantly that they constrained him to grant them their desire Then Titus gave them leave to set upon the Jews thinking with himself peradventure the Jews may be put to the worse of these men that will fight without fear not knowing the force of the Jews for the Romans that have had trial of their strength fight fearfully and warily So the Lords of the strange Nations chose out of their Armies eighty thousand men Ten thousand Macedonians twenty thousand Britains five thousand Aramites ten thousand Africans ten thousand valiant Burgundians five thousand Redarans last of all ten thousand Persians and Chaldeans These therefore went into the Plain which is by the Sepulcher of Jehochanan the high Priest and from thence made an assault upon the Jews that were upon the Walls setting up their scaling ladders Jehochanan said to Schimeon and Eleazar his two Companions If you think good I will issue forth and skirmish with these uncircumcised to let them see what I can do Schimeon answered Let two of us do it and the third keep the gates and walls for thou alone art able to do nothing against them they are so many Eleazar allowed this advice offering himself to bear Jehochanan company Schimeon bad them go saying The Lord of the Sanctuary give them into your hands and deal not with you at this time according to your works Then Jehochanan and Eleazar issued with one thousand five hundred good men of War the ninth day of the moneth Tebeth which was the tenth moneth that Titus had besieged Jerusalem and overthrew of the Gentiles of that host fifty seven thousand and five hundred men besides three thousand whom they took prisoners but of the Jews were no more slain in that fight than only seven whose bodies with much rejoycing and great triumph they carried with them into the Town and buried them there lest peradventure the uncircumcised should have misordered them The Gentiles that were left with great shame and dishonour returned unto Titus who reprehended them because they would not believe the Romans The next day following the Jews brought forth the three thousand Nobles and Gentlemen that they had taken prisoners and plucked out of every one of them an eye and cut off every man the one hand after sent them back with shame and reproach to Titus's Camp Then Titus consulted with all his Princes what were best to do with the Israelites and when every man had said his mind he liked never a mans counsel but said unto them Well I have devised this with my self which I will follow and no man shall bring me from my purpose we will keep the siege without any assault or skirmish for their victuals failed them long ago and so they shall be famished Besides this when they shall see us cease to fight with them they will fall at variance amongst themselves and kill one another This counsel was thought good of all Titus's Princes wherefore they besieged the Town as Titus commanded and closed up all the wayes of the City round about lest the Jews should as they had done before come upon them unawares They appointed moreover watch day and night to take heed that no man should come out of the Town to gather herbs for their sustenance Then encreased the hunger in Jerusalem which if it had not been so grievous the City had never been won for the souldiers of the Town were lighter than Eagles and fiercer than Lions There died therefore of the famine wonderful many of the Jerusolemites so that the Jews could not find place to bury them in they were so many in every place of the Town Many cast their dead folks into their Wells and tumbled afterwards in themselves and died Many also made themselves graves and went into them alive where they tarried day and night and died unmourned-for For all mourning and accustomed lamentation for the dead was left off because of the unmeasurable famine which was so great that it cannot be told and I cannot relate the thousandth part of the mischief that followed of the hunger Titus seeing the innumerable carkases of the dead that were cast into the Brook Cedron like dung was wonderfully amazed with fear and stretched out his hands toward heaven saying Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom the Israelites believe in cleanse me from this sin which surely I am not the cause of for I required peace of them but they refused it and they themselves are cause of this mischief they have sinned against their own souls and lives I beseech thee impute it not to me for a sin that the Jews die on this manner At that time certain wicked persons of Jerusalem slandered Amittai the Priest falsely saying to Captain Schimeon Behold Amittai the high Priest which did let thee into the City goeth about to flee to the Tents of the Romans Thou hast experience of his great wit and wisdom how he also knoweth all the secret wayes into the Town Temple and Sanctuary and who can tell whether he will bring the Romans some night at midnight